Theatre Arts Education (K-12) B.S. or B.A.

The Lees-McRae College Theatre Arts Education (K-12) program provides candidates with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to be outstanding drama teachers. The program also provides a course of study that promotes a positive and holistic understanding of the teaching profession within a reflective practitioner framework. The student will study both theatre arts and education and may pursue either a Bachelor of Arts or a Bachelor of Science degree. The graduate is then certified to teach drama on the elementary, middle school and high school grade levels. For additional information please contact Janet Speer, Program Coordinator at SpeerJ@lmc.edu or 828-898-7279

1. As a Theatre Arts K-12 educator, the Lees-McRae student will have an understanding of the ideas, attitudes, beliefs, and feelings of diverse people in different times throughout history as communicated through literature and theatre.

2. As a Theatre Arts K-12 educator, the Lees-McRae student will employ techniques for teaching and learning through developmental processes and activity-oriented methods.

3. As a Theatre Arts K-12 educator, the Lees-McRae student will promote higher level critical and creative thinking skills, problem recognition and problem solving, intuition, examination and implementation of conflict resolution, and the learning of reading, writing, math and other areas of the curriculum.

4. As a Theatre Arts K-12 educator, the Lees-McRae student will be able to assist in focusing the emotions for controlled use, strengthening the imagination for creative self-expression, disciplining the voice and body for purposeful use, expanding intellectual horizons to include aesthetic awareness, developing self-discipline, and providing a basic understanding and critical appreciation of all the theatre arts.

5. As a Theatre Arts K-12 educator, the Lees-McRae student will be able to make connections between theatre arts and other art forms, other curriculum areas, dramatic media, and the related use of technology including numbers and data.

6. As a Theatre Arts K-12 educator, the Lees-McRae student will provide an intense study of what playwrights seek to convey and how this is intensified through theatrical production, thus giving students insights into countless aspects of the diverse and changing world.

7. As a Theatre Arts K-12 educator, the Lees-McRae student will be able to include the reading, viewing, listening, researching, writing, speaking, preparing to perform, performing, and directing of traditional and experimental theatrical forms, as well as the accompanying aspects of technical production.

8. The Teacher Education students will be competent in the following areas (refer to the PAS Department for additional information);
PFA 470 Competency One Creative and Critical Thinking and Artistic Direction
PFA 471 Competency Two Performance
PFA 472 Competency Three Arts Management, Leadership and community Development
PFA 473 Competency Four Technical Theatre
PFA 474 Competency 5 Cultural and Critical Perspectives
PFA 475 Competency 6 Academic Review, Personal Reflection and Service

Course Offerings for Theatre Education K-12

Theatre Arts Education requires 87 hours and includes the following components in addition to the General Core REquirements:

Required Major Courses [Education] (34 hours)
EDU 201 Foundations of Teaching/Public School (3)
EDU 310 Child/Adolescent Development (3)
EDU 321 Educational Psychology (3)
EDU 361 Ed. of Culturally Diverse/Exceptional Populations (3)
EDU 371 Field Experience and Seminar (2)
EDU 381 Computer/Media Applications in Education (3)
EDU 401 Modes of Inquiry (2)
EDU 431 Materials/Methods for Teaching K-6 (2)
EDU 432 Materials/Methods for Teaching 6-9 (2)
EDU 433 Materials/Methods for Teaching 9-12 (2)
EDU 451 Foundations of American Education (3)
EDU 491 Directed Teaching and Seminar (6)

Required Major Courses [Performing Arts] (45 hours)
PAS 100 Movement for Stage (1)
PAS 101 Dance Technique (1)
PAS 133 Principles of Acting (3)
PAS 233 Intermediate Acting (3)
PAS 234 Diction for the Performing Artist (2)
PAS 243 Stagecraft (3)
PAS 254 Makeup (2)
PAS 344 Costuming (3)
PAS 363 History/Theory of Drama/Theatre (3)
PAS 374 Directing I (3)
PAS 453 Performing Arts Management (3)
PAS 473 History/Theory of Modern World Drama/Theatre (3)
PAS 474 Directing II (3)
PAS 483 TV and Film for the Actor (3)
PAS 484 Play Writing and Program Scripting (2)
PAS 497 Senior Research and Independent Study (1)
PAS 499 Senior Research Seminar (1)
PFA 111-412 Production Performance Lab (M/N)
PFA 470-475 Six Performing Arts Competencies (0)*

Elective Major Courses (Select 8 hours)
PAS 333 Acting in Musical Theatre (3)
OR PAS 433 Period Acting (3)
PAS 343 Introduction to Design (3)
OR PAS 443 Scene Design (3)
PAS 381 Dance and Choreography (2)
OR PAS 481 Dance Composition (3)

Additional Elective Courses (Enough to reach the 124-hour level)